Hi, Check the Skate review on Gamespot about the framerates issue, the fix is here:

If you dont experience bad framerates with your games/demos now, let it be, dont fix anything, praise yourself lucky with your viewing ability.

I am using XMB fw 1.93, HDMI 720p, Optical digital output dolby/dts.

Change the following settings for the maximum performance to fix bad framerates and responses. Some option couldnt have influence, I dont have time to check it out, you check it out yourself,so I play itwith just disablingsettings when Im playing PS3 games.

XMB settings Menu:

Game settings: PS/PS2 Upscaler=OFF, PS/PS Smoothing=OFF

BD/DVD Settings: Cinema conversion=Video,DVD Upscaler=OFF, BD 1080p 24Hz output=OFF, BD/DVD Audio output format=Bitstream

Music settings: Crossfade playback=OFF, Audio cd output=44.1/88/192kHZ, Bitmapping=OFF

System settings: Notification messages=Do not display

Display settings: Screensaver=OFF

Sound setting: Audio output= optical output or analog, HDMI sound output can cause lagging

Security settings: ALL OFF

Network settings: MEDIA SERVER connection=DISABLE (probably one of the main cause lag, since it scans wifi etc.)

GAMEON